Minor earthquake: M3.15 quake has struck near Petrolia in CA

A minor earthquake with magnitude 3.15 (ml/mb) was reported 49 kilometers (30 miles) from Petrolia in CA on Friday. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 03/01/25 / 2025-01-03 16:56:35 / January 3, 2025 @ 4:56 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude -124.86633300781 West, latitude 40.292835235596 North, depth = 0.14000000059605 km. The temblor was picked up at 16:56:35 / 4:56 pm (local time epicenter). Id of earthquake: nc75112496. Event ids that are associated: nc75112496. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 0.14000000059605 km (0 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected). The epicenter was 69 km (43 miles) from Fortuna (c. 11 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Fortuna (min 5000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days nine, in the past 30 days one hundred and eighty-two and in the last 365 days two hundred and nineteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. There are an estimated 130,000 minor quakes in the world each year.

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How did you respond? Did any furniture slide, topple over, or become displaced? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Location, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters and details about this quake, reported near: 49 km W of Petrolia, CA. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

CA Fortuna Petrolia United States

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	3.15 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-124.86633300781° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	40.292835235596° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	0.14000000059605 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	49 km W of Petrolia, CA	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-01-03 16:56:35	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-01-03 16:58:38	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	153	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	nc	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,nc,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	33	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.4218	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.32 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	283	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	nc75112496	Id of event.
Event Code	75112496	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,nc75112496,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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